5 charged in S.F. slaying of tourist

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SF Police are searching for Lance Molina, 23, and Arieal Kittles, 21, who have been charged in the Oct. 2009 slaying of tourist Michael Bailey of Baton Rouge, LA.

SF Police are searching for Lance Molina, 23, and Arieal Kittles, 21, who have been charged in the Oct. 2009 slaying of tourist Michael Bailey of Baton Rouge, LA.

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SF Police are searching for Lance Molina, 23, and Arieal Kittles, 21, who have been charged in the Oct. 2009 slaying of tourist Michael Bailey of Baton Rouge, LA.

SF Police are searching for Lance Molina, 23, and Arieal Kittles, 21, who have been charged in the Oct. 2009 slaying of tourist Michael Bailey of Baton Rouge, LA.

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5 charged in S.F. slaying of tourist

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San Francisco prosecutors charged five people Wednesday in the October slaying of a tourist from Louisiana who was lured into a public housing project, robbed and shot to death.

Two of the suspects wanted in the killing of Michael Bailey, 26, are still at large.

Arrested and arraigned Wednesday was 21-year-old William Jones of San Francisco, who is charged with murder with special circumstances, conspiracy, robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. He is being held on $10 million bail.

Also in custody are a 17-year-old boy, charged with murder, conspiracy and robbery, and Kenya Moore, 30, accused of being an accessory to murder. She and the boy are scheduled to be arraigned Monday. The teenager's name was not released because he is a juvenile.

Police are searching for Lance Molina, 23, and Arieal Kittles, 21. Both are charged with murder and conspiracy.

Bailey, a married father of three who studied electrical engineering at Southern University at Baton Rouge, was visiting San Francisco with friends. At about 3:30 a.m. Oct. 4, he and two friends were at a nightclub when a woman, believed to be Kittles, asked for a ride home to the Alice Griffith public housing project in Hunters Point, police said.

When they arrived, a man appeared, pointed a gun at Bailey and his friends and ordered them onto the ground, prosecutors said.

Ten more people arrived and robbed the victims, prosecutors said. When one of the men struck a friend of Bailey's with a gun, Bailey stood up to help and was shot several times, prosecutors said.